Yikes! Although confluence has made me angry recently, I agree that our docs would seriously suffer if we lost it... I'll join in the infra mailing list and see if I can't help out with the source. Thanks for bringing this to our attention Martin!
-Wes On Wednesday 20 May 2009 12:27:48 am Martin Cooper wrote: > Folks, > > Due to a long-standing issue with Confluence, there are discussions going > on that could lead to us losing Confluence as a resource, both for > generating our web site and for our wiki. This would be really bad for > Struts, which is why I'm bringing this up now. > > The core issue is that we are on a very old version of Confluence, and > there are serious scaling issues with that version. The infrastructure team > very much wants to upgrade to the latest version of Confluence, but the > issue there is that the Auto Export Plugin does not work with more recent > versions than the one we are running. This is due to some structural > changes that were made in Confluence, and the Auto Export Plugin not having > been updated for those changes. > > The Auto Export Plugin is open source, but for a variety of reasons, the > resources have not been brought to bear to update the Auto Export Plugin > such that we can deploy it on a newer version of Confluence. > > If you care about our continued ability to use Confluence to generate our > web site, and our wiki, please consider getting involved in at least the > discussions on the infrastructure mailing lists. If you think you might be > able to help with updating the plugin itself, your help would be very much > appreciated. Again, joining the discussion on the infrastructure list would > be the place to start. > > Personally, it horrifies me to think of how much work would be involved in > migrating all of our content to a different wiki, let alone compensating > for the loss of various Confluence plugins and macros (e.g. snippets). > > As mentioned, the Auto Export Plugin is open source, and lives here: > > http://code.google.com/p/couldit-autoexport/ious > > Your thoughts and comments can be brought up on the > [email protected] list. > > -- > Martin Cooper -- Wes Wannemacher Author - Struts 2 In Practice Includes coverage of Struts 2.1, Spring, JPA, JQuery, Sitemesh and more http://www.manning.com/wannemacher --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
